Kalistegiya terry is popular with flower growers of our country. With its help it is possible to decorate the seasonal dacha, to hide defects of fence, fence and any construction. The plant begins to blossom in the first year of landing in July and until the end of September.
Kalistegiya (calystegia) — perennial grassy plant, treats family of the Morning-glory family. It has also other names: peahen, birch and bindweed. And the fluffy and gentle bud of plant has helped it to deserve and other name — the French rose. Decorate with this liana arches, pergolas and rotundas.
On garden sites not only the terry kalistegiya, but also intaking, multiplex and plyushchelistny meets. At the correct leaving in several months magnificent bindweeds with terry flowers grow from the put rhizome. But to buy kalitegiya sprouts in flower shop it is difficult therefore more often gardeners should grow up this liana from seeds.
Now boarding
That the kalistegiya has taken root on the site and pleased with magnificent blossoming, it is necessary to choose the place of landing correctly. For it it is better to find open area where there will be no other plants. Otherwise it will quickly force out them. One more requirement — lighting. Kalistegiya grows better if it is in the first half of day in the sun, and in the second — in shadow. Soil for liana has to be feeder and easy that in it the grass did not stand.
That roots of plant did not disturb other cultures, before landing of kalistegiya in soil dig in slate (on depth no more than 50 cm). It is also in advance necessary to prepare support for liana from columns, wire , etc. Rhizomes put at distance from 10 to 30 cm from each other. Before landing in holes put ashes or humus.
Leaving and cultivation
In the first year the plant needs regular and abundant watering, but it is necessary to watch that the soil was not boggy. To the middle of summer the liana reaches 1.5 meters, the first buds begin to be tied. At this time fertilizing is required for bindweed: it needs to be watered with organic fertilizers once a week.
If summer cold, fungicides are necessary. At this time the liana can suffer from wreckers — snails who damage leaves and buds. With them it is possible to fight against the help of chemical and biological methods (insecticides and lime). Decay and mealy dew can ruin this plant. That to get rid of them, it is necessary to change the watering mode, to clean all rotten places and to process liana fungicide.
The entire period of growth and blossoming it is necessary to look after kalistegiya carefully, including, to constantly delete the dried-up flowers. The liana is afraid of frosts therefore after the first the frost its upper parts can be deleted in the fall at once. That in the first winter the plant has not frozen, it is covered, in the next years of it it is not necessary to do. The kalistegiya wakes up late spring, it is normal in the middle or the end of May.
Reproduction of kalistegiya happens root shoots, that is in the vegetative way. For this purpose it is necessary to cut off small sprout, to plant it in suitable soil, and to cover from above with plastic bottle. It is possible to be engaged in cultivation of liana at any time from late spring to the first frost.